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02-03-2004, 08:35 PM | #1 |
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Nothing new, Luger accidental death
Just sort of thought those folks would have been more careful:
KNIEP, Walter (RK; DKiG) (1909 - 1944) SS-Sturmbannf�¼hrer: Born: 13.12.1909 in Lorenzen/Ostpreu�?en. Died: 22.04.1944 after being hit by an .08 Luger pistol round being unloaded by another soldier during firing practice near Thouars, France. NSDAP-Nr.:/SS-Nr.: Promotions: SS-Stubaf.: ; SS-Hstuf.: ; Assignments: Kdr. Sturmgesch�¼tz-Abt./SS-Pz.Gren.Div. "Das Reich": 10.1942 - 22.04.1944. IIa/IIb SS-Division "Reich" (mot.): (03.1942) - Notes: According to official reports detailing the peiord 5.07.43 to 17.01.1944, Kniep's Abteilung destroyed 129 Soviet tanks, while itself sustaining only two casualties. Decorations & Awards: Ritterkreuz des E.K.: 14.08.1943 as SS-Stubaf. u.Kdr. Sturmgesch�¼tz-Abt./SS-Pz.Gren.Div. "Das Reich"/AOK "Kempf"/Heeresgruppe S�¼d, Eastern Front; Deutsches Kreuz in Gold: 11.11.1941; 1939 EK I: 22.07.1940; 1939 EK II: 3.06.1940; http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/SS...tubaf_J-L.html rk |
02-04-2004, 02:59 PM | #2 |
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"Died: 22.04.1944 after being hit by an .08 Luger pistol round being unloaded by another soldier during firing practice near Thouars, France."
Well, yeah........ I guess that could be termed "unloading". |
02-04-2004, 11:56 PM | #3 |
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Anybody with any combat experience or just service time can tell you stories like this all day--GIs are as dangerous to themselves and each other as any enemy.
Even real professionals have accidents-I know of a SF 03 who dropped a Swedish K and was killed by the discharge. Same-same an E8 with a Thompson This kind of stuff is not uncommon. "A GI could screw up an iron ball" I saw somebody who knew better kick a dud M 79 round which wsn't a dud-took his foot off. I gave him a bad time for doing it so close to where I was standing. |
02-05-2004, 01:53 AM | #4 |
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by MikeP:
<strong>This kind of stuff is not uncommon. "A GI could screw up an iron ball"</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">We always said that if you give a GI an anvil and a 9 pound rubber hammer, he'd either break the anvil or steal it. |
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I was up close and personal with several "accidents" in Vietnam, first was on a mine clearing operation, a grunt security squad was on our left flank, one was carrying his rifle like a squirrel hunter, it went off and hit the searchlight between the tank commander and me. Second time a M79 dude slipped in the mud climbing up on a rice paddy dike, it went off and hit a SSG in the hip, didn't explode but broke the guy's leg. Third time we set up in the dark in the woods, heard movement, one of McNamara's 100,000 threw a grendae, it hit a bamboo thicket and bounced back, two wounded. Add the slam fires, grenades pulled off LBE, etc. You could get hurt.
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